HR Manager I

Lead HR for one of Dart’s largest manufacturing operations.

We’re looking for an experienced manufacturing HR leader to partner with plant leadership and help shape the future of our Waxahachie facility.

Supporting a workforce of approximately 800 employees, this role will be instrumental in strengthening workforce stability, developing frontline leadership capability, improving retention and employee engagement, and building a culture centered on safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on plant HR leadership experience, strong employee relations expertise, sound business judgment, and the ability to influence leaders at all levels. This is an opportunity for an HR leader who enjoys being close to the operation, understands the realities of a multi-shift manufacturing environment, and can translate people strategies into measurable business results.

What You’ll Do

As HR Manager, you’ll lead the HR function for the Waxahachie facility while partnering closely with plant leadership to achieve safety, quality, efficiency, workforce stability, and employee engagement goals.

You’ll:

• Lead the HR strategy for a large, complex manufacturing facility supporting approximately 800 employees across multiple shifts.
• Partner with plant leadership to improve retention, reduce turnover, strengthen attendance, and increase workforce stability.
• Lead and develop a team of three HR Business Partners, establishing clear ownership, consistent HR standards, accountability, and individual development plans.
• Coach and develop supervisors, team leads, and managers to become stronger people leaders, with an emphasis on onboarding, performance management, communication, accountability, and employee development.
• Build strong relationships with employees across shifts through proactive workforce outreach, stay interviews, employee feedback, and engagement initiatives.
• Lead complex employee relations investigations and provide practical guidance on corrective action, performance management, policy application, and employment law.
• Partner with leaders on organizational development, talent reviews, succession planning, and leadership-development initiatives.
• Use workforce data and business insights, including turnover, retention, attendance, staffing, and employee-relations trends, to identify root causes and drive measurable improvement.
• Partner closely with Talent Acquisition, Operations, Safety, HR Centers of Excellence, and other business partners to support staffing and deliver a consistent employee experience.
• Support organizational change, workforce growth, operational improvements, and other facility initiatives.
• Promote a culture focused on safety, accountability, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of progressive HR experience, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant HR experience.
• Direct HR experience supporting plant manufacturing operations and an hourly production workforce.
• At least two (2) years of experience directly leading and developing HR staff, including responsibility for coaching, performance, development, and day-to-day work priorities.
• Strong employee relations expertise, including personally conducting complex workplace investigations and providing leaders with recommendations and corrective-action guidance.
• Practical experience applying FLSA, FMLA, ADA, and other federal and state employment laws in day-to-day HR and employee-relations situations.
• Demonstrated experience coaching and influencing plant leaders, supervisors, and managers and driving accountability through effective HR partnership.
• Experience supporting retention, turnover reduction, employee engagement, and workforce stability initiatives.
• Proven ability to analyze workforce data and translate trends and insights into actions that improve business and people outcomes.
• Experience supporting organizational development, succession planning, leadership development, and change initiatives.
• Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and change-management skills.
• Ability and willingness to provide HR leadership for a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including supporting leaders and employees across shifts as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• HR leadership experience supporting a large, multi-shift manufacturing workforce.
• Experience supporting an employee population of 500+ employees.
• Experience leading multiple HR professionals or HR Business Partners.
• Demonstrated success improving measurable workforce outcomes such as turnover, retention, attendance, engagement, or staffing stability.
• Experience supporting significant business growth, facility expansions, new production lines, turnarounds, or workforce transformations.
• Experience implementing HR processes or programs that strengthen frontline leadership capability and accountability.
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification.

What Success Looks Like

The successful HR Manager will become a trusted partner to both employees and plant leadership and will help build a more stable, engaged, and accountable workforce.

Success will include:

• Improving workforce stability and retention.
• Strengthening the capability of supervisors and frontline leaders.
• Building an effective, highly engaged HR team.
• Ensuring employee-relations matters are handled consistently, promptly, and appropriately.
• Increasing employee engagement and trust in leadership.
• Using workforce data to identify problems early and drive action.
• Creating consistent HR practices across shifts.
• Supporting the facility’s growth and continuous-improvement priorities.

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